Every week, I organize 400 to 700 links into roughly 60 categories as part of my ongoing effort to learn about AI. This is my personal notebook, which I enjoy sharing with friends… a hobby and a labor of love, rather than a commercial publication or product.
If you arrived here through a search or shared link, this page collects the links I found for Education for the week ending August 7, 2026.
As part of my learning process, I like to automate the category covers. It gives me a chance to learn Python and APIs.
This week’s cover prompt was written using Claude Opus 4.7, and the image was generated using Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview.
Category Cover Image Prompt: A lone weathered wooden school desk with a closed book and small slate resting on top, settled at the bank of a mirror-still marsh pond on a quiet starlit night, its silhouette perfectly reflected in the black glassy water, surrounded by soft reeds and thin mist, deep indigo sky filled with silver starlight and one faint warm glow on the distant horizon, painterly nocturne in the style of American Tonalism, low horizon, generous negative space in the upper sky, bold clean title type reading Education set into the night sky above.
This Week in Education News
Summary by Claude Sonnet 5.5 based on this week’s links:
- Learning by building: One developer used GPT 5.6 Sol to vibe-code a 3D human anatomy app with Three.js, starting from a single design image, and framed it as a glimpse of more interactive education. Viam, meanwhile, put its Robotics Fundamentals course online for free, with a roughly 90-minute intro that needs no hardware.
- Sharing how people actually use AI: Rowan Cheung's Community AI Workflow Hub drew hundreds of submissions in its first couple of days. He said readers include a 65-year-old retiree and teachers looking for workflows that fit their lives.
- Student and researcher perspectives: Kogod published a three-year student research report on AI. A Zhihu post also shared how a CMU PhD student takes a paper from early idea to conference submission.
This summary was generated by Claude Sonnet 5.5 to help you explore the links below. Rest assured, I select, organize, and check the links by hand in Google Sheets, and write the introduction and personal commentary in The Main Newsletters myself each week as a labor of love.
This week's links related to Education
10 problems that had been stuck for at least a decade, solved for ~$2,000 in inference. When testing another serious approach gets this cheap, the economics of deciding which problems are worth pursuing could change completely.”
https://x.com/TheTuringPost/status/2083851607196725375
Only if education could be this interactive ❤️🔥 I’ve had a looong wish to build something genuinely useful through vibe coding, and I finally did it. A 3D human anatomy application built with @threejs using GPT 5.6 Sol. It all started with a single design image that I created”
https://x.com/thebuggeddev/status/2083884856531177942
cool use case of chatgpt work i heard last night: connect your family calendars and explain your kids’ interests. every morning for the drive to school, have it make a podcast that talks about one kid’s soccer game that afternoon, one kid’s upcoming birthday, some news, etc.”
https://x.com/sama/status/2083221585792762171
🎓 How a CMU PhD Student Takes a Paper From 0 to 1 After three semesters as a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University, Zhihu contributor 郑深 shared the workflow he uses to turn an early research idea into a conference submission. His first year included funding uncertainty, an”
https://x.com/ZhihuFrontier/status/2084533099896225904
AI at Kogod: A Three-Year Student Research Report
https://kogod.american.edu/news/ai-at-kogod-a-three-year-student-research-report
Blown away by the response to the Community AI Workflow Hub. Hundreds of detailed submissions in the first couple days. Readers saying this is their favorite part of The Rundown. A 65-year-old retiree finding workflows that apply to his life. Teachers finding what works in”
https://x.com/rowancheung/status/2085028564559393220
We just launched the Reddit for AI use cases. A place for builders to learn from other builders on how they’re using AI to get ahead in life, work, and business. The submissions have been INCREDIBLE so far. A few of my favorites:”
https://x.com/rowancheung/status/2083971684558848500
Robotics Fundamentals’ – Viam just put their entire course online. No hardware required. Free. 📌 The 101 walks you through building a real robotics application, start to finish, in about 90 minutes. → Course Overview → Obstacles and WorldState → Understanding Poses →”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2085429898383159560
And yet they still stink at good long-form fiction.”
https://x.com/emollick/status/2083625021868499165
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